Samsung Chief Calls Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘Inadequate’
The “inadequate” Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. Photo: Charlie Sorrel — Samsung's mobile VP Lee Don-Joo has taken a look at the iPad 2 and decided that his own Gal...
Bing Welcomes KAYAK
Since the launch of Bing, our goal has been to create a new and different search experience focused on helping you make faster, more informed decisions. We set out to do this by delivering great resu...
Apple's MacBook Pros ship with active SSD TRIM support in Snow Leopard
New MacBook Pro models are shipping with Mac OS X 10.6.6 (build 10J3210), which supplies TRIM support for bundled Apple Solid State Drives, enabling extended performance of the fast new devices via ba...
MacBook Pro review (early 2011)
Apple might say we're in the post-PC era, but hey — turns out they still make Macs in Cupertino, and the new MacBook Pro is actually one of the more aggressive refreshes in the machine's history. Not...
Bing Welcomes KAYAK
Since the launch of Bing, our goal has been to create a new and different search experience focused on helping you make faster, more informed decisions. We set out to do this by delivering great resu...
Developers: Why You May Not Want To Listen To Robert Scoble
I love Scoble. I really do. He's a great source of content, and occasionally controversy. In a post today, he suggests that developers should build for Android tablets. I am left a little confused...
AT&T Mobile Hotspot for iPhone 4 limited to just three WiFi devices (update: it's an iOS 4.3 thing)
Say it ain't so! According to this here slide, which details a bit of insidery AT&T information about the impending release of iOS 4.3, Ma Bell's iPhone 4 will have its Personal Hotspot restricted to...
Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbreaking Site
A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz's website from January of 2009 to the present. — Thur...
ie6countdown.com - a wolf in sheep's clothing
It seems that Microsoft are just as sick of users sticking with IE6 as web developers are, if their latest ie6countdown.com venture is anything to go by. You'd think that web developers - at least th...
Developers: why you should build for Android tablets
OK, maybe Steve Jobs' reality distortion field is wearing off a bit and I might feel differently in a week when I get my iPad 2, but after playing with my Motorola Xoom a lot more tonight and seeing j...
The best Web security against hackers and spammers: advanced math!
If you don't want spam-bots or bad guys breaking into your site, make them do calculus. That's the approach the folks at a Croatia's RuÄ'er Boškovi Institute are taking. Before you can log …
This Man Is Putting Millions In Startups' Pockets — And Scaring VCs To Death
And Scaring VCs To Death — AngelList is turning Silicon Valley upside down. It's basically Match.com for startups and business angels, and startups are raising millions from angels on the site almos...
Conan Roasts iPad 2: You'll Buy It No Matter What We Say [Video]
With every new Apple product launch, there's now an expectation that we're going to get a video made by Apple to help explain the product. You know the ones. They feature Apple executives (though, o...
AmEx Teams Up With Foursquare
American Express Co. has struck a deal to offer discounts to shoppers via Foursquare Labs Inc., the two-year-old start-up that lets users win prizes and meet people by using their mobile phones to “ch...
Is Best Buy Planning To Give iPads To All Its Sales Associates?
A Best Buy employee fetches an iPad for a customer — Best Buy has been talking up the notion of a broadband-linked “Connected World” for several years now. Does that vision include giving Apple iPa...
REVEALED: Inside Canvas, 4chan Founder Moot's Secretive Startup
Moot, a.k.a. Christopher Poole, founded the infamous imageboard 4chan and is now a respectable partner at VC firm Lerer Ventures and has a secretive startup called Canvas. — The goal of Canvas basic...
Twitter Will Shut Off GeoAPI To Developers
When Twitter bought Mixer Labs in December, 2009, it inherited the startup's then-recently launched GeoAPI, which offered a platform for building geo apps. The GeoAPI combined a places database of 16...
Google To Shut Down Gizmo5 On April 3
Back in November 2009 Google acquired Gizmo5, a powerful VoIP telephony service that allows users to place and receive calls from their computer and mobile phone applications. Today, the company has ...
Just How Bad Is the iPad 2 Camera?
It seems impossible for Apple to put a decent camera into anything but the iPhone, and despite many hopes, both cameras in the iPad 2 are about as rudimentary as you could get without having to load a...
ICE Arrests Operator Of Seized Domain; Charges Him With Criminal Copyright Infringement
While Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) group has been seizing lots of domains under questionable legal theories, it has been slow to follow through on any sort of actual l...
RIMM's Chief Marketing Officer Departing on Eve of PlayBook Launch
As The Wall Street Journal notes …
AOL Buys Outside.In, Less Than $10 Million
AOL will announce today that it has acquired “hyper-local” blog aggregator startup Outside.In, an industry source tells us. — We don't know if AOL will announce how much it is paying for the company...
Apple Negotiating Unlimited Usage of Music Downloads
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in talks with record companies to give iTunes customers easier access to music they've purchased across multiple devices, said three people with knowledge of the plans. — Apple ...
Bessemer Said to Be Raising $1.2 Billion to $1.5 Billion for Venture Fund
Bessemer Venture Partners, a century-old investment firm in Larchmont, New York, is aiming to raise as much as $1.5 billion for a fund to back technology startups, said two people familiar with knowle...
Google Cranks Up M&A Machine
Undaunted by Valuations, Deals Chief Says Will Continue to Pursue Start-Ups — Google Inc. doesn't seem daunted about acquisitions in the wake of its failure last year to land online coupon site Grou...
Counting Down Internet Explorer 6 Usage Share
On this day a year ago, Aten Design Group hosted a funeral for IE6 in Denver, Colorado. We heard about it and sent flowers. While the funeral gave a strong indication of the desire to rid the world ...
Google issues Android anti-fragmentation tool
Google has made good on a promise to release technology it hopes will curtail Android's fragmentation problem, a complication for programmers who want their software to run on a diversity of devices. ...
Windows Phone 7: Will NoDo show? Has Mango gone soft?
This week, Microsoft released a “fixed” version of its first software update for Windows Phone 7 that was designed to alleviate problems reported by a number of Samsung users. However, the Samsung WP...
CBS Acquires TV Guide For Online Video Clicker, Jim Lanzone Named President Of CBS Interactive
CBS has acquired Clicker, a TV Guide for internet programming, according to a release just issued by the companies. Clicker's CEO Jim Lanzone has been named President of CBS Interactive.
Libya Blocks Internet Traffic
After slowly returning to the Internet, Libya has gone again. — At about 7 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday Internet traffic coming in and out of Libya dropped to nearly zero, where it remains, accordi...
WiFi-only Motorola XOOM Headed to Sam's Club, Possibly Priced at $539
Been a lot of talk about a wifi-only Motorola XOOM lately and thanks to our friends at Sam's Club, we think it may be closer than anyone imagined and with a better-than-previously-advertised price tag...
AOL Tim Armstrong: After HuffPo deal closes ‘no way around’ layoffs
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Huffington Post chief Arianna Huffington have finalized their integration plans and layoffs are on tap as the acquisition nears the finish line. — The news isn't unexpected...
BlackBerry Maker RIM To Build Cheaper Phones
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, a major Marvell customer, is shifting significant resources to “entry-level smartphones” according to one of its major suppliers. — Chip maker Marvell had a toug...
The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio
More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest's massive 30-...
Microsoft Is Said to Plan Windows Release for Tablets in 2012
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, won't release a competitor to Apple Inc. and Google Inc.'s tablet operating systems until the 2012 back-to- school season, people with knowledge of...
Samsung finds parts of Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘inadequate’ compared to iPad 2, reconsiders pricing
Whether you love or loathe Apple, you have to be happy with the company's aggressive upgrade of the iPad. It has led to Samsung, purveyor of an Android 3.0 tablet by the name of Galaxy Tab 10.1 …
AOL Tim Armstrong: After HuffPo deal closes ‘no way around’ layoffs
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Huffington Post chief Arianna Huffington have finalized their integration plans and layoffs are on tap as the acquisition nears the finish line. — The news isn't unexpected...
Chrome OS Get A Big Update — Two Words: Trackpad Fixes
Two Words: Trackpad Fixes — A couple weeks ago, Google rolled out the beta of Chrome 10, the latest version of their web browser. Today they're bringing it to Chrome OS too — and it contains more go...
Blekko Now Offers ‘Blekkogear’ Publisher Tools: Badges, Widgets, And Toolbars, Oh My!
Search engine Blekko is taking its initiative to insert itself into the news as much as possible one step further today, and is launching a Blekkogear hub for its publishing tools, presenting a packag...
A Declaration of Cyber-War
Last summer, the world's top software-security experts were panicked by the discovery of a drone-like computer virus, radically different from and far more sophisticated than any they'd seen. The rac...
Apple Keen on Development of China Mobile 4G IPhone, Wang Says
Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is interested in developing a version of the iPhone for China Mobile Communications Corp.'s TD-LTE network, the Asian carrier's chairman said.
Updated Windows Phone 7 update isn't updating some Samsung phones for March update
Man, talk about a flustercuck. After missing a cycle with its mobile phone strategy, the last thing Microsoft needed was a support fiasco related to its very first Windows Phone 7 software update.
Apple said shipping 12 million iPad 2s in spring alone
Apple could ship more than 10 million iPads a quarter for the first time in the spring, part suppliers claimed late Thursday. The company is still on track to ship 6.5 million iPads before April, two...
WordPress.com DDoS Attacks Primarily From China, Possibly Politically Motivated
After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service's history ("multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second") yesterday morning …
ICE Arrests Operator Of Seized Domain; Charges Him With Criminal Copyright Infringement
While Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) group has been seizing lots of domains under questionable legal theories, it has been slow to follow through on any sort of actual l...